She holds a PhD in Creative Research on signs, minds and creativity, or how to write like painting with her thesis titled Harlequin Blue and The Picasso Experiment (2015). She holds two First Class Honours degrees in Creative Writing (Southern Cross University) and Biological Sciences (Macquarie University).

Ashley's poetic work has appeared in various places, including Southerly, AXON, Rabbit, Verity La,TEXT and Island/Islet. She has performed her creative work in Australia and France, and most recently at the World Science Festival Brisbane (2017). She was a finalist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award (2016), and highly commended in The Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award (2016). You can find a list of her recent publications here.

Ashley’s background in science continues to influence her creative interests. As The UQ Fryer Library Creative Writing Fellow during 2018, she is writing a book of poems drawing inspiration from geologist Prof Dorothy Hill’s coral research among other papers and rare books collected at the Fryer Library.

She is one part of the slow reading and writing collective SWAMP and (soon to be launched) MUtarts Press. She currently lives in Brisbane, Australia.

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If you'd like to see my CV, which includes some awards and other kinds of recognition in both the arts and sciences, you can find that here (or link below).

And please don't hesitate to get in touch, for any reason, whatever strikes!

SIDE NOTE: Hi there, 'paratextual' to my writing life, I make art. Some of my art can be seen scattered around this portfolio website as details or fragments of larger pieces that almost always inform my writing.